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RFC 1945 - 6. Response

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### 6. Response

After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds in the form of an HTTP response message.

           Response        = Simple-Response | Full-Response

           Simple-Response = [ Entity-Body ]

           Full-Response   = Status-Line             ; Section 6.1
                             *( General-Header       ; Section 4.3
                              | Response-Header      ; Section 6.2
                              | Entity-Header )      ; Section 7.1
                             CRLF
                             [ Entity-Body ]         ; Section 7.2

A Simple-Response should only be sent in response to an HTTP/0.9 Simple-Request or if the server only supports the more limited HTTP/0.9 protocol. If a client sends an HTTP/1.0 Full-Request and receives a response that does not begin with a Status-Line, it should assume that the response is a Simple-Response and parse it accordingly. Note that the Simple-Response consists only of the entity body and is terminated by the server closing the connection.

6.1 Status-Line

6.1.1 Status Code and Reason Phrase

6.2 Response Header Fields

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RFC 1945 - 6. Response